... area we traversed across on a very little used dirt road, to the aire highway at Balladonia and onto the Cocklebiddy cave system about 10 kms before Cocklebiddy. As we arrived fairly late and the rain still seemed to be brewing, we ...

Mercifully Jake falls asleep at 5.30 and sleeps for 14 hours. The campfire is a much more organized and civilized affair tonight. We are amazed and disappointed by the huge volume of roadside litter. Everywhere we stop there are piles of baby wipes,big ...

... least you always know what time it is.
As the sun started to go down, we stopped in the town of Cocklebiddy (population 7), and set up camp for the night at the roadhouse. Crossing the country from east to west, the ground was most ...

... dad got another flat tyre, after the second attempt to fix it we put a new tyre and tube on, we finally got to cocklebiddy about 3:00pm, had some steak sanga's, We meet a couple travelling with there two daughters all the girls were glad to have a ...

... population is more than 6.
The journey today was so boring that when we saw a rock we called it Hudson. Playing I spy is a little bit predictable here. Something beginning with B - Bush.
Site of the day was the Cocklebiddy ...

Today we visited both the Balladonia and Cocklebiddy roadhouses, spending the night at Cocklebiddy. This is significant as my aunt and uncle helped to manage these roadhouses for a period in the 1980s. Balladonia was the first stop and I took some ...

... few hours. So we meet Gene Shafer. He is a life saver and offers to give us a tow to the next "town" called Cocklebiddy. Actually it is a petrol station, bar, motel and caravan park all in one. And it is the only service station between Norseman and ...

Here is an entry from Grace. My stay at the Eyre Bird Observatory We were just at the Eyre Bird Observatory. It was sooo fun! It's built in an old telegraph station, we slept there last night in the two bedrooms. It has a kitchen, lounge room/ dining ...

... and honey battered we entered WA: our fifth Australian state in just four weeks! Our first camp in Western Australia was near a little fuel station called Cocklebiddy. We got a campfire on the go and wined and dined before heading out on a spider hunt. ...

... we saw it we decided to go on a little further. We got out our Camps 7 book and found a free camp 44km out of Cocklebiddy. We have a very sheltered spot a fair way away from the highway. There are 3 other vans here. We have ...

... the long straight stretch of road called the Nullabor.
The drive goes on and on it was really boring. It was a straight drive into Cocklebiddy. We quickly set up
because we thought it might rain. It was really cold as we set up and cooked dinner. We ...

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It wasn't very long before we stopped at Caiguna where we were originally going to stay but decided to keep on driving to Cocklebiddy.
We then set up camp had dinner played some games of UNO but no one could get to sleep after because the really ...

Left at 7:45 am in our convoy of 5 vans. For some reason we get to go in front all the time. Fuel at Balladonia Roadhouse and we all stopped together at the sign for the longest straight road and had individual and group photos taken. Fuel at Caiguna ...

... 148km without a bend in the road. Unfortunately we didn't stop and take a photo of the advisory sign. We made it to Cocklebiddy just before sunset to refuel and get ready for tomorrow. Dinner was at the roadhouse where roast and vegies was the order of ...

... morning due off.Today we traveled from the rest area 110 kilometers west of Balledonia to Cocklebiddy Roadhouse. We traveled on the longest straightest road in Australia across the Nullubor Plain. there were some parts that had trees and there were some ...

... 45 min so we make a note to buy one of their advanced clocks. We spot many dead Kangaroos on the side of the road approaching Cocklebiddy, and contemplate driving further but we are both travel weary, so Rod decides to call it a day. As we pull up at the ...

... Toni had time to cook dinner and all the fresh vegetables blanched and in the freezer. We are now camped in the Cocklebiddy Roadhouse Caravan Park which is directly opposite the track we are taking tomorrow morning....tonight however we will feast in ...

... ; Roads are extremely long. That’s probably why the 90 mile straight is along there between balladonia and cocklebiddy. The longest straight road in Australia. - We were going to stay in caiguna which is about 80k ...

... fuel cost 1.89 a litre. Jacko whinged about them not having the manners to wear masks when taking our money Made it to Cocklebiddy having gained an hour and forty five minutes due to the time zones we had crossed. We stayed in a ...

... minutes which was great as we weren’t looking forward to adding an hour and a half in one go tomorrow, then kept driving into Cocklebiddy.
The Wedgetail Inn Cocklebiddy is where we are staying the night, we arrived late afternoon set up camp, had ...

... , to benefit who exactly we don’t know because there is only one roadhouse along the road. By the time we reached Cocklebiddy it was late afternoon so we pulled in and set up in the clean roadhouse caravan park. Our neighbours behind us were on the ...

This morning we drove down to the beach and the coastline of The Great Australian Bight - there are only a few access points along the Nullarbor where you can reach the sea. Eucla is an access point and here there are ruins of an old telegraph ...

Long day yesterday 600k. Spent night in free camp near Cocklebiddy, just at the end of the ninety mile. Really nice. Miki found some wood and we had a lovely camp fire. Woke up to 1c inside and out this morning and had to pack up very wet tent because of ...